War is fought by brothers

"I, Billy Pilgrim, the tape begins, will die, have died,and always will die on February thirteenth , 1976."(141)This chapter made me think how Billy really sees his life. How can you feel if you knew when and how are you going to always die. Would it be worth it or would it be too depressing? I don't know how Billy really sees his life, he knows it all, so he is never surprised. How can you feel for example, the day before you know you are going to die. Not even a day, a year, how would you live the year of your death, would you do everything you didn't do before or would you spend your last days sitting on your bed regretting not doing all you wanted. I think this is a very hard question. Billy is emotionless his life must be all normal for him. All he does he has done it before so it must be boring. On the other side it is cool to know that even if you die you will keep on living in other moments. You will never actually be really dead and Billy knows this.

Another thing that came to my head after reading this chapter was the idea that wars are fought by brothers."There was nothing to be afraid of. Here were more crippled human beings, more fools like themselves."(150) When people see wars they see two or more sides fighting with each-other, defending a flag and honoring their uniforms. But they don't see further than this, beneath those camouflaged jackets and those cargo pants there are all humans trying to survive. In this chapter Billy and another 100 americans arrive at Dresden. Were they realize they are equal to the German soldiers that are supposed to watch them. In most wars the people that fight don't do it because they really love killing people but because they are forced to. We are all equal and by writing this antiwar book Vonnegut wants to show that wars are not good that they will not change the world into a better place, as many people think. Wars are fought by brothers, soldiers are only distinguished by their uniforms and the language they speak but aside from this they are not different.